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Enough already about this one reporter. This does not require two blogs.

Not strong enough for KATV? The girl has been doing everything herself. Shooting, editing, web, look lives, traveling, writing, graphics and no telling what I am leaving out.

Now she can focus on reporting.

So Holly Sonders was a strong KATV candidate? Her co-workers weren't happy with her and told everyone who would listen out in the field that she didn't even write her package or care to learn how to be a reporter.

You have to have think skin to be on stage with folks watching. Most people can't handle it.

Sometimes people's opinions are the majority for talking someone down, but the title of this thread is rude.

If you have an opinion negative or positive about the matter fine, but my two cents is that she did the right thing for herself and will continue to get better.

Anyone who MMJ's and gets it done everyday and gets the lead the 10 p.m. news (when it was number one) every night should deserve some respect.

I am curious as to how the new MMJ's will last.

I think BJ and Max do a good job.

I don't understand why Pam got the Saturday morning show gig or why they put Faith as it's field reporter. Does THV get complaints about Faith's strong accent? This is Arkansas, I'd think people in the south wouldn't be as open to her.

Why is some clown posting about KTBS when the thread is about KATV in Little Rock? And how does having a new set make a difference in news performance anyway? Are people in Shreveport that easily influenced by such BS?

While on the subject of KATV, I was watching recently when a story about the many mini-earthquakes hitting Guy, Arkansas, aired.Anchor Christina Munoz read the story detailing a 3.1 quake had struck on Wednesday and then casually mentioned that "a 6.7 quake had occurred on Tuesday" before rolling right into the next story.Thanks to the DVR, I was able to rewind and see if I'd just heard her mention a 6.7 quake had taken place on Tuesday.She had indeed mentioned a massive 6.7 quake hit Guy in what seemed a trivial manner.Of course, I knew no such large quake had struck since it would have caused massive damage and would have made the national wires and news.So how in the world could she have just ran right through such a glaring error without stopping to correct the obvious misprint on the TelePrompter?I can only suffice that Mrs. Munoz, while a very pleasant person, is nothing more than a news reader.Anyone with any sense of the news would have realized that such a quake hadn't taken place.No correction anywhere in the newscast, by the way.KTHV's Liz Massey committed a similar goof a few months back when reading a story about Arkansas' share of federal highway funds being "$63 BILLION" instead of million.Again, don't see how anyone wouldn't catch that mistake and correct it instantly.An example would be on Fox Business this morning when an anchor read a story about Apple's latest quarterly earnings on sales of more than $63 billion.The copy said the company's profit came to only $6 MILLION, which the anchor immediately caught and corrected to $6 billion.Now that's how it's done, folks.

While it's unfortunate that Christina Munoz and Liz Massey both made such errors in reading what amounts to a typo in the prompter it's not something I would blame on them. It's actually their job to read what comes across word for word. If they had to stop on air and try and correct every thing they think is wrong they would never get through a show let alone it being one anybody would want to watch. Believe me, every anchor will make corrections on the fly but it's not something you want to do on a regular basis. Anchors should be able to trust that by the time it's gets into the prompter, it's been verified. Every once in a while a typo gets through, not the end of the world. As far as the folks on Fox Business go, I'm sure they had a producer in their ear as soon as they misspoke telling them to correct it. Your not going to find that level of producing in the local markets.

If I write a paper and have looked over it a million times, I personally can't catch things, but if I (not being a paid proof reader) look at someone elses work with fresh eyes, things will pop out at me.

When Davy has been asked if he misses Katherina, he say yes and no because now he doesn't have to worry about her everyday since she went out everyday as an MMJ by herself. He felt helpless and it stressed him out.

The no part is because he plans on working with her soon.

It will hurt THV if they are down a photographer because they don't hire photogs anymore, just MMJs.

THV has half the photogs all the other stations have. But double the reporters (they are MMJs though. Not a good choice.

Just from a viewer's standpoint, I am suprised KATV put Katherina on the air with her stale delivery. Someone needs to work with her on her voice. Definitely not KATV type quality as some of the women on there.

To the last poster. You may not have noticed but KATV is not the powerhouse that it once was. It is showing in the talent they are hiring, the product they brodcast and the tools they are not buying. It reminds of what happened to KARK in the late 80's early 90's. However, it seems like KARK didn't loose the good qualities as quick.

Well at least yancy is better than thvs new hires.ruff. ashley needs a make over. Dawn is hot. Neil is doing his own thing and id b surprised if either of the two are in his life. If yancy wasn't descent she wouldn't be the lead package in every show everyday.just saying.

She should run into the arms of her real lover—weekend assignment editor and photographer Steve Payne.

I can picture it now.

She tells him he’s a great photographer while others complain about his work ethic, arrogance, mediocre photography and slow editing. Then, he can tell her how beautiful and talented she is while managers say her voice delivery is as bad as it was years ago and hasn’t progressed.

Together, they can bash THV on a news blog and the people they work with. Yes, we know. In this news blog, they will compare themselves to new hires who have less experience but show better progression than they will ever see in a lifetime.